On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:02 +0100, James Freer wrote:
I checked with an update this morning - using ubuntu 7.10 [still waiting for my shipit 8.04! but doesn't matter as they still seem to be quite busy sorting out bugs!]. "apt-get update" seems to update apt-get, the update icon went grey and remained grey while i did some other work, i rebooted and the orange icon returns with the same new package to be updated.
The icon actually has 3 colours/styles on 8.04. Grey means the apt database is locked because a package manager is running somewhere (be that synaptic, apt-get or the update manager itself) Orange means that there are Suggested updates available, Red means there are critical updates.
If the icon was still present and orange after running apt-get update then that means there are packages which have suggested updates for your system. How can that be anything other than the desired behaviour ?
If you installed those packages with apt-get upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade if they are held back for some reason) then you would find that it went away because the suggested packages have been installed.
Anyway why are you waiting for snailmail to deliver an 8.04 disk to upgrade ? If you have a reasonable net connection just use the update manager to do the upgrade online.